Nokia Qt SDK beta has adorable mobile simulators

The first beta release of Nokia's new Qt SDK includes mobile simulators that …

Nokia is developing a new Qt SDK that will simplify the development of cross-platform mobile applications. A beta release, which was made available this week, includes the Qt Creator integrated development environment (IDE), comprehensive Qt reference documentation, and mobile simulators that make it possible to see how a Qt application will look and feel on MeeGo or Symbian.

The bundled Qt Creator is a prerelease of version 2.0, which has some really nifty new features such as a visual editor for Qt's new declarative user interface language (QML). The new version of the IDE allows application developers to select which mobile platforms they want to target and makes it easy to launch an application in the mobile device simulator.

I tested the SDK myself and ran one of my own Qt applications in the simulator to see what it would look like on Symbian. Yes, you can finally ditch Carbide and build Symbian applications in a modern environment with a modern toolkit. It's an impressive advancement for Nokia's mobile development tooling. The beta is available for download from Nokia's Web site.